{"id":211248,"date":"2019-05-23T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211248-iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:42:24","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_fElcsbnfFUk\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FfElcsbnfFUk%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fElcsbnfFUk\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M45S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-05-21T17:37:33Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_fElcsbnfFUk\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FfElcsbnfFUk%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fElcsbnfFUk\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FfElcsbnfFUk%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019 Iran&#039;s Regime Sentences 4 MEK Activists to Execution, Imprisonment Tehran\u2019s Revolutionary Court on Sunday sentenced four men affiliated with the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran to prison and or death. Branch 28 of Tehran\u2019s Revolutionary Court headed by the notorious judge, Mohammad Moghiseh, sentenced 34-year-old Abdullah Ghasempour to death and eight years behind bars on charges including \u201cwaging war on God,\u201d \u201cassembly and collusion,\u201d and \u201cmembership in the MEK.\u201d The court said that Ghasempour had set fire to a paramilitary Bassij base, filmed the event and sent it to the MEK media. The Bassij is affiliated to the regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards, which was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department last month. Three other men, Mohammad Hossein Ghasempour (Abdullah\u2019s brother), Alireza Habibian, and Akbar Dalir, all in their thirties, were sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison each for \u201cassembly and collusion.\u201d The trio are currently held in Ward 4 of Tehran\u2019s Evin Prison. All four had been arrested on May 21, 2018, in Tehran and were transferred to the notorious Evin Prison. They were kept in a state of limbo for nearly a year before being tried. Three Kurdish Women Arrested for Civil Activism Security forces arrested three Kurdish women in the city of Marivan for civil activities and for holding a protest. On May 16, the Iranian regime\u2019s security forces attacked Koolan Village near Marivan and arrested at least 7 civil activists, including three Kurdish women, who had protested the murder of a woman in that area. The three Kurdish women are Daiman Fat\u2019hi, Somayyeh Roozbeh and Mojdeh Mardokhi. On this day, civil activists in Marivan had planned to gather at the village\u2019s cemetery by the grave of the murdered woman. Britain Tells Iran&#039;s Regime: Don&#039;t Provoke the United States Britain told Iran\u2019s regime on Monday not to underestimate the resolve of the United States, warning that if American interests were attacked then the US administration would retaliate. \u201cI would say to the Iranians: Do not underestimate the resolve on the US side,\u201d Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told reporters in Geneva. \u201cThey don\u2019t want a war with Iran. But if American interests are attacked, they will retaliate. And that is something that the Iranians needs to think about very, very carefully.\u201d Officials Say Iran&#039;s Regime Quadruples Production of Enriched Uranium The Iranian regime quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran\u2019s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday. By increasing production, the regime soon will exceed the stockpile limitations set by the 2015 nuclear deal. The state-run IRNA news agency later quoted Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as acknowledging that capacity had been quadrupled.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019Iran&#8217;s Regime Sentences 4 MEK Activists to Execution, Imprisonment Tehran&rsquo;s Revolutionary Court on Sunday sentenced four men affiliated with the People&rsquo;s Mojahedin Organization of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[178],"class_list":{"0":"post-211248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-iran-news-in-brief","7":"tag-save"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019Iran&#039;s Regime Sentences 4 MEK Activists to Execution, Imprisonment Tehran\u2019s Revolutionary Court on Sunday sentenced four men affiliated with the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran to prison and or death.Branch 28 of Tehran\u2019s Revolutionary Court headed by the notorious judge, Mohammad Moghiseh, sentenced 34-year-old Abdullah Ghasempour to death and eight years behind bars on charges including \u201cwaging war on God,\u201d \u201cassembly and collusion,\u201d and \u201cmembership in the MEK.\u201dThe court said that Ghasempour had set fire to a paramilitary Bassij base, filmed the event and sent it to the MEK media. The Bassij is affiliated to the regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards, which was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department last month.Three other men, Mohammad Hossein Ghasempour (Abdullah\u2019s brother), Alireza Habibian, and Akbar Dalir, all in their thirties, were sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison each for \u201cassembly and collusion.\u201dThe trio are currently held in Ward 4 of Tehran\u2019s Evin Prison.All four had been arrested on May 21, 2018, in Tehran and were transferred to the notorious Evin Prison. They were kept in a state of limbo for nearly a year before being tried.Three Kurdish Women Arrested for Civil ActivismSecurity forces arrested three Kurdish women in the city of Marivan for civil activities and for holding a protest.On May 16, the Iranian regime\u2019s security forces attacked Koolan Village near Marivan and arrested at least 7 civil activists, including three Kurdish women, who had protested the murder of a woman in that area. 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And that is something that the Iranians needs to think about very, very carefully.\u201dOfficials Say Iran&#039;s Regime Quadruples Production of Enriched UraniumThe Iranian regime quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran\u2019s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday.By increasing production, the regime soon will exceed the stockpile limitations set by the 2015 nuclear deal. 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They were kept in a state of limbo for nearly a year before being tried.Three Kurdish Women Arrested for Civil ActivismSecurity forces arrested three Kurdish women in the city of Marivan for civil activities and for holding a protest.On May 16, the Iranian regime\u2019s security forces attacked Koolan Village near Marivan and arrested at least 7 civil activists, including three Kurdish women, who had protested the murder of a woman in that area. 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The three Kurdish women are Daiman Fat\u2019hi, Somayyeh Roozbeh and Mojdeh Mardokhi.On this day, civil activists in Marivan had planned to gather at the village\u2019s cemetery by the grave of the murdered woman.Britain Tells Iran's Regime: Don't Provoke the United States Britain told Iran\u2019s regime on Monday not to underestimate the resolve of the United States, warning that if American interests were attacked then the US administration would retaliate.\u201cI would say to the Iranians: Do not underestimate the resolve on the US side,\u201d Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told reporters in Geneva.\u201cThey don\u2019t want a war with Iran. But if American interests are attacked, they will retaliate. And that is something that the Iranians needs to think about very, very carefully.\u201dOfficials Say Iran's Regime Quadruples Production of Enriched UraniumThe Iranian regime quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran\u2019s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday.By increasing production, the regime soon will exceed the stockpile limitations set by the 2015 nuclear deal. The state-run IRNA news agency later quoted Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as acknowledging that capacity had been quadrupled.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2019-05-23T08:04:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:42:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":402,"height":100,"url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@iran_policy","twitter_site":"@iran_policy","twitter_misc":{"Written by":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019","datePublished":"2019-05-23T08:04:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/"},"wordCount":14,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization"},"keywords":["save"],"articleSection":["Multimedia: Iran news in brief"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/","name":"Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-05-23T08:04:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:24+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019Iran's Regime Sentences 4 MEK Activists to Execution, Imprisonment Tehran\u2019s Revolutionary Court on Sunday sentenced four men affiliated with the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran to prison and or death.Branch 28 of Tehran\u2019s Revolutionary Court headed by the notorious judge, Mohammad Moghiseh, sentenced 34-year-old Abdullah Ghasempour to death and eight years behind bars on charges including \u201cwaging war on God,\u201d \u201cassembly and collusion,\u201d and \u201cmembership in the MEK.\u201dThe court said that Ghasempour had set fire to a paramilitary Bassij base, filmed the event and sent it to the MEK media. The Bassij is affiliated to the regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards, which was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department last month.Three other men, Mohammad Hossein Ghasempour (Abdullah\u2019s brother), Alireza Habibian, and Akbar Dalir, all in their thirties, were sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison each for \u201cassembly and collusion.\u201dThe trio are currently held in Ward 4 of Tehran\u2019s Evin Prison.All four had been arrested on May 21, 2018, in Tehran and were transferred to the notorious Evin Prison. They were kept in a state of limbo for nearly a year before being tried.Three Kurdish Women Arrested for Civil ActivismSecurity forces arrested three Kurdish women in the city of Marivan for civil activities and for holding a protest.On May 16, the Iranian regime\u2019s security forces attacked Koolan Village near Marivan and arrested at least 7 civil activists, including three Kurdish women, who had protested the murder of a woman in that area. The three Kurdish women are Daiman Fat\u2019hi, Somayyeh Roozbeh and Mojdeh Mardokhi.On this day, civil activists in Marivan had planned to gather at the village\u2019s cemetery by the grave of the murdered woman.Britain Tells Iran's Regime: Don't Provoke the United States Britain told Iran\u2019s regime on Monday not to underestimate the resolve of the United States, warning that if American interests were attacked then the US administration would retaliate.\u201cI would say to the Iranians: Do not underestimate the resolve on the US side,\u201d Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told reporters in Geneva.\u201cThey don\u2019t want a war with Iran. But if American interests are attacked, they will retaliate. And that is something that the Iranians needs to think about very, very carefully.\u201dOfficials Say Iran's Regime Quadruples Production of Enriched UraniumThe Iranian regime quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran\u2019s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday.By increasing production, the regime soon will exceed the stockpile limitations set by the 2015 nuclear deal. The state-run IRNA news agency later quoted Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as acknowledging that capacity had been quadrupled.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-may-21-2019\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/","name":"NCRI","description":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization","name":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","alternateName":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","width":402,"height":100,"caption":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/iran_policy"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/author\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}